vatic

Definition

Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular.

Etymology

From Latin vates (“seer, poet”) + -ic.

Example Sentences

• "The truth of life lay in the vatic messages words sent, meanings beyond what the world called meaning."
• "“Inordinate attention from the middle latitudes,” proclaimed Miles, with a sort of vatic swoon in his voice."
• "[T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic."